All right, Paul Kent, head of the Macworld Expo, is doing his level best to put a positive spin on the loss of Apple Inc. He promises that the event will continue regardless, and that they are already promising great things for 2010. That’s just fine and dandy, and you have to expect that sort […]

All right, so if I heard someone tell me that Steve Jobs not only wasn’t going to deliver his famous keynote at the next Macworld Expo and that Apple itself would pull out of the event after 2009, I would tell them they were probably drinking too much Kool-Aid. Yet, that’s precisely the news that […]

When Bill Gates appeared to a round of boos and catcalls on a satellite feed during a Macworld Expo keynote some years ago, you wondered why Steve Jobs was so readily conceding the operating system wars. Jobs went on to state that, for Apple to succeed, Microsoft didn’t have to lose. You’d think he was […]

One line still used by politicians running for reelection is that they did a good job and want to continue to perform in a similar fashion, to stay the course. That is, unless things are going badly, in which case they try to reinvent themselves as reformers, who will fight all those big, bad politicians. […]